Adobe SpeedGrade CC Overview

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About This Episode

Deliver balanced color and distinctive, visually vibrant looks. Shot Matcher lets you work faster by automatically correcting for subtle differences in footage to achieve a consistent feel between clips, within scenes, and across your entire project.

With the addition of Direct Link, it's easier than ever to color grade your Premiere Pro projects natively in Speedgrade and then bring them back into Premiere Pro. Learn how to put the non-linear back into grading.

Deliver balanced color and distinctive, visually vibrant looks. Shot Matcher lets you work faster by automatically correcting for subtle differences in footage to achieve a consistent feel between clips, within scenes, and across your entire project.

Quickly match color and contrast between two shots from the same scene. Mixing Light's Robbie Carman demonstrates how to use Shot Matcher to speed up tedious shot-to-shot matching and automatically correct for differences in footage to create consistency between shots.

Learn to easily save stills of shots in your project and use them as reference images for color grading work. Mixing Light's Robbie Carman also shows you how to import images from apps such as Photoshop into the Snapshot Browser to guide your color grading.

Learn how to effectively analyze the brightness of shots and measure contrast ratio. Robbie Carman demonstrates new scope layouts and how the Luma Waveform scope can help you quickly evaluate the brightness of shots.

Roundtrip your video sequences from Premiere to Speedgrade for color grading, and back to Premiere. Infinite Skills author Jeff Sengstack shows how Premiere Pro sequences can be exported to SpeedGrade either as DPX still image sequences or edit decision lists (EDLs). After completing color grading in SpeedGrade, those projects can be exported as stand-alone video files back into Premiere Pro for more editing.

Step through the primary color correction workflow in SpeedGrade CC. Learn how to make adjustments that affect your entire shot and preserve detail through the tonal range. You'll work with gain, saturation, shadows, highlights, and midtones. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Dive into the primary color correction process and learn how to balance your shots. Discover how to expand the color range and remove color casts by layering primary corrections that affect the color, highlights, and shadows in your footage. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Master a host of time-saving techniques for copying grades from one clip to another in SpeedGrade CC. Learn keyboard shortcuts to copy grades from any frame in your scene. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

When creating a look you love, you'll often want to save it to apply to other shots in your project or even other projects. Robbie Carman from Mixing Light shows how easy it is to store, manage and apply saved looks in SpeedGrade as well as Premiere Pro.

Find out how to match grades between clips and sequences with the Continuity Checker in SpeedGrade CC. You'll learn to preview, synch, and compare up to nine separate clips in the Continuity Checker. Learn more from the full course on lynda.com.

Robbie Carman explains how to isolate part a shot for color refinement by using masks in SpeedGrade. With complete control over the shape, position, and softness of masks, you'll find them a powerful way to fix or enhance portions of a shot.

Quickly match color and contrast between two shots from the same scene. Mixing Light's Robbie Carman demonstrates how to use Shot Matcher to speed up tedious shot-to-shot matching and automatically correct for differences in footage to create consistency between shots.

SpeedGrade marketing manager Eric Philpott speaks with senior colorist Thomas Bergmann about SpeedGrade. Thomas and his company Silbersalz recently created a beautiful film celebrating SpeedGrade, and showing how they use the color grading application in their daily work. This interview was recorded "on set" during the making of that film.

SpeedGrade marketing manager Eric Philpott speaks with London-based cinematographer and colorist Will Read about his integrated approach to filmmaking and the importance of color grading in digital workflows.This interview was recorded at the SpeedGrade 10th anniversary event in November 2013.